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Old 09-09-2011, 11:47 AM
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Default Clouds :(

Hi all,
I play on atag server quite alot and noticed they had clouds on. Id never played with them on before and noticed a massive fps drop whenever they are in view, meaning if i were to look at an area without any clouds i get smooth play then drop fps again when they come back into view.

So i need to know if there is a fix for this or if not if its possible to force them off withput being banned or labelled a cheat.

I have tried lowering the settings but doesnt seem to have any effect.
My specs: i know isnt great but runs fine other than these poxy clouds!
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Old 09-09-2011, 12:46 PM
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Ram

It is not that much expensive and level things up quite easily
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Old 09-09-2011, 12:52 PM
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Things might be different on different hw configs but I can tell you that I just upped my ram from 4 to 12 without gaining a single frame.
I made a ramdrive of 4 GB but that didn't help either.

So in my experience 4GB of ram is plenty.
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Old 09-09-2011, 01:07 PM
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Ram

It is not that much expensive and level things up quite easily
Thanks but cant afford to at mo, any other ideas?
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Old 09-09-2011, 03:34 PM
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Fly higher

to be honest I have a pretty good rig but the clouds and smoke kill my system. I have reduced the resolution to improve my ability for spotting enemy aircraft online and as a consequence get much better frame rates in cloud.
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Old 09-09-2011, 04:15 PM
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to be honest I have a pretty good rig but the clouds and smoke kill my system. I have reduced the resolution to improve my ability for spotting enemy aircraft online and as a consequence get much better frame rates in cloud.
i didnt try lower res yet only other settings like detail and textures, will try this later and report back, thanks
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Old 09-10-2011, 03:54 PM
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i lowered my res a notch and this helped, but id prefere they fix the clouds or have a setting to lower the detail or whatever for us "lower end machine" people.

thanks for the help
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Old 09-10-2011, 04:21 PM
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Considering the beta patch, we wanted to see if cloud performance was better/worse/ or the same. Seems to be the same. So we turned them back off (only a slight sprinkling of clouds here and there)
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Old 09-10-2011, 10:48 PM
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It is a well known fact by now that, no matter what hardware you are running on, clouds have a massive impact on performance, I do dare say it's the same for everybody.
So while upgrading little by little is generally an advisable thing optimisation of cetain things in flight is still needed and the devs, I am sure, are aware of it and working on it.
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Old 09-21-2011, 12:25 PM
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when i'm flying the clouds show thru into my cockpit. Anyone know how to fix that?
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